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Team, Inc. (Team) is a provider of specialty maintenance and construction services required in maintaining high temperature and high pressure piping systems and vessels utilized in the heavy industries. The Company's services include non-destructive testing, field heat testing, leak repair, fugitive emissions control, hot tapping, field machining, technical bolting and field valve repair. The Company markets the services to companies in a range of heavy industries, which includes petrochemical, refining, power, pipeline, steel, pulp and paper industries, as well as municipalities, shipbuilding, original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), distributors, and some of the world's largest engineering and construction firms. In November 2010, the Company purchased a 95% interest in Quest Integrity Group, LLC. [...] more

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